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The Taconic Crest Trail crosses Petersburg Pass.

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photography

Kate Abbott
The Lenox Historical Society in the old Lenox Academy Building on the Main Street now owns a set of James Van Der Zee's photographs of Lenox.
Photo by Kate Abbott
Visual Arts

James Van Der Zee photos from the Harlem Renaissance years will come home

December 7, 2017
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He was born in a house on Hubbard Street when Hubbard Street was still a dirt road. He remembered early years in a large, warm family. Around him, people were always  sketching and drawing, singing and playing instruments. He played the piano and the violin, but the instrument that made his […]

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Doanne Perry's 'Peaches' shows the amber-gold shading on their skin.
Doanne Perry's 'Peaches'
Visual Arts

Guild of Berkshire Artists gathers color in West Stockbridge

August 25, 2017
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The painter caught my eye, standing on the grass outside the old town hall. Straw hat and smock, pallette and easil — a plein air artist made of straw. On the easil, splashes of bright color announced that the Richmond-West Stockbridge Artists Guild has an exhibit running (August and September […]

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Oil painting of the woodshed and laundry buildings at Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, by Carol Kinzel, courtesy of John and Sondra Talbot, San Diego, Calif.
Painting by Carol Kinzel
History

Berkshire artist Carol Kinzel paints a Shaker summer day in 1950

August 18, 2016
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A yellow-painted clapboard building catches the afternoon light. In the wood shed beside it, a pile of logs as broad as tree trunks slants under an overhanging roof, and glass is broken in the windows. Tall grass blows down the center of the dirt driveway. This is Hancock Shaker Village […]

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A starry night gleams above Owachomo Bridge at Natural Bridges National Monument, Utah, 2008. Photo by Jim Richardson/ National Geographic Stock. Part of the exhibition National Geographic Greatest Photographs of the American West.
National Geographic
Visual Arts

National Geographic photographs ‘Look West’ at the Berkshire Museum

October 25, 2015
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American bison gallop over open ground in a golden haze in an exhibit at the Berkshire Museum, as National Geographic images probe deep into the West.

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